Meta president for global affairs Nick Clegg raised the issue of staffing at Coimisiún na Meán at least twice with the Taoiseach
Coimisiún na Meán will have a lead role in enforcing sweeping new European laws aimed at ensuring the world’s largest internet companies police content on their platforms.
Mr Varadkar wrote back at the end of February saying: “As you know, the Government is mindful of Ireland’s important role in enforcing digital regulations. Then known as Facebook, a submission it made to the Oireachtas Media Committee in March 2021 says the new commission “should be properly resourced and staffed with sufficiently qualified individuals who can carry out all of its statutory functions”.
The Department of Enterprise refused to release the two redundancy notification letters sent to it by Meta, one in March and another in May, under Freedom of Information Act as they are said to contain “commercially sensitive information”. However, the job cuts do come up in other documents. The Department of Enterprise released notes of an online meeting on March 11th between its senior officials, Meta and IDA Ireland the day after Mr Zuckerberg made his announcement.
At the meeting, Mr Hughes “offered the department’s full support to minimise, where possible, the number of job losses at the company or any future announcements”.
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